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Definition of Fire-bush
1. Noun. Evergreen South American shrub having showy trumpet-shaped orange flowers; grown as an ornamental or houseplant.
Group relationships: Genus Streptosolen, Streptosolen
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
2. Noun. Densely branched Eurasian plant; foliage turns purple-red in autumn.
Group relationships: Bassia, Genus Bassia, Genus Kochia, Kochia
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire-bush
Literary usage of Fire-bush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Garden: An Illustrated Weekly Journal of Gardening in All Its Branches by Esther Baldwin York (1906)
"... FIRE BUSH AND ... Mr. Fitzherbert sende from Kingswear, South Devon, flowers
of the Fire Bush (Embothrium ..."
2. Gardens Near the Sea: The Making and Care of Gardens on Or Near the Coast by Alice Lounsberry (1910)
"The fire bush is extremely hardy and possessed of daintily formed, vividly green
foliage often ruddy tinged. It seems strange that these shrubs are not more ..."
3. World Stories Retold for Modern Boys and Girls: One Hundred and Eighty-seven by William James Sly (1914)
"Moses obeyed the Voice that spoke that day to him out of the fire-bush, and he
became one of the greatest of leaders and lawgivers that this world ever saw. ..."
4. Hydrology of South Africa: Or, Details of the Former Hydrographic Condition by John Croumbie Brown (1875)
"For the last three or four days an immense tract of country has been on fire—bush
and veld being ablaze—the flames advancing rapidly, and destroying ..."
5. The Encyclopædia of Evidence by Edgar Whittlesey Camp, John Finley Crowe (1907)
"... presumption of its ownership of an engine running on such road which caused
the fire in question arises in an action for damages from such fire. Bush v. ..."
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